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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: What is MicroSoft's usenet address?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.183045.3976@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <Bx5CLu.6pv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <11270013@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com> <1dj8itINN6ru@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Nov11.070334.26234@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:30:45 GMT
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- In <1992Nov11.070334.26234@microsoft.com> jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:
-
- >BTW: Yes, I was on the MS-DOS 900 line ($2/min or $20/call); no
- >it is NOT programming support; NO the $ microsoft gets from that
- >doesn't begin to cover the cost of offering it (after AT&T and
- >federal, state and local taxes are taken out, microsoft gets about
- >$1/minute).
-
- $60/hr isn't enough to cover the cost of having a guy answer the
- phone? Lemme see now, that's around $10,800 a month. Hell, if MS
- wants to pick up the cost of putting in the phones and stuff, I'd work
- for $11k/month.
-
- Or perhaps you mean that given what it costs, they don't recover
- enough to make up for the ill will created by having this kind of
- support? Now THAT one I could believe.
-
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